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A-Z Bristol Pub Crawl: The Wackum Inn, Whitehall
The Wackum Inn was originally called the Beaufort Arms, and was known as the Beatem and Wackem.
Its current name is a variation of this nickname, which is from the story of miners’ wives who used to come into the boozer looking for their husbands.
As the story goes, they would proceed to ‘beat ’em and whack ’em’ with rolling pins to stop them from spending all their wages on beer and coax them home.
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On a recent evening, husbands and wives drank together in harmony in the Whitehall watering hole, with rolling pins laying very much dormant.
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Football was the focus of the dozens of punters’ attention, with Arsenal versus Manchester City being blasted on several screens throughout the pub. The hum from the match was only just audible as the Smiths’ This Charming Man emanated from the sound system.
Settling down with two pints of Madrí (£9.20 altogether), a bowl of chips were planted on the table by a smiley staff member just 30 seconds after they were ordered.
A host of faces were seated at the pub, in which general managers Damion and Laura Pike won ‘acting local pub of the year’ at an awards evening for Greene King pubs in 2018. From families and skaters to mums and dads and mums, it appeared the Wackum Inn had something to suit every person.
A covered beer garden is located at the back of the boozer
A historic roadside inn in an area not well populated with pubs, the Wackum Inn offers traditional, cheap pub fare in the form of cheese topped nachos shared (£4.99), beef lasagne (£7.49), corned beef hash pie (£8.79), bramley apple pie (£3.79) and loads more. On TripAdvisor, it is rated number 23 of 1,073 restaurants in Bristol.
While the Beatum bit of the name was dropped over the years as it was deemed a little rough, the pub retains its original brick structure.
Green King claim that pub holds a “ghostly presence”, writing “two friendly ghosts, a man and a woman are most often seen in the cellar and the landlord claims to have seen the man looking like he was changing a barrel.”
533 Whitehall Road, Whitehall, Bristol, BS5 7DA
www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk/pubs/avon/wackum-inn/
All photos: Betty Woolerton
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